The Urge To Jump
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Have you ever stood near the edge of a cliff with only a short fence separating you from the chasm below? As you held on tightly to that fence, did you feel a sudden urge to throw yourself off the cliff? This feeling is known as the high place phenomenon, and many of us experience it multiple times throughout our lives. But why do we have these seemingly irrational impulses?
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There is also the urge to push someone off a cliff. Its not a desire, its just like a feeling reminding you that you can just do it. You are free to do so and nothing is stopping you. Shortly after you get over this feeling you feel like a psychopath
Yeah sometimes even when my best friend is standing behind me i get the feeling that they are having that urge to just push me off.
not me 💀
i have a roof right under my 2nd story window, at any point i could choose to climb onto it and belly flop off.. but i wouldn't, cause i feel like i could actually jump off and land that shit and it would be pretty cool.
I have it too 😱 at least I had once. And then I realized how important my prefrontal cortex is. If it's damaged nothing is stopping your impulses.
@1000 VIEWS VIDEO CHALLENGE youll be in heavy panic attack in those last few seconds
It’s also called: “The call of the void”. I forget where it originated but its ominous nature is fitting for the phenomenon
I belive I've heard of this term in a book called "the dictionary of obscure sorrows"
I think it originates from french, not sure tho
French "l'appel du vide"
I was disappointed when he called it the high place phenomenon, call of the void is a much better interpretation
its a french term, lappel du vide (the call of the void). its a terrifying and calm idea because nothing happens
CALL OF THE VOID something my friend once tried explaining its a strange thing to experience. LOL at times being a younger feels like the call of the VOID.
Yeah I’ve had those thoughts for a sec. Like a what if. Not that I wanted to. No death wish. A what if then freak out of even thinking of it. Happened once or twice while somewhere quite dangerous. Read about this a few years ago. Wonder who has… we’ll never know.
@@peter-radiantpipes2800 LOL same here no death wish at all. At times I freeze up looking at height or the other times its straight up the call.
I've recently been struggling with a strange urge to open a moving car door when I'm a passenger. I move my hand slightly, and then it evaporates and I feel very odd after going against it.
It's happened to me a couple of times and I thought I was the only one.
Thanks for showing me that I'm not the only one who has experienced this. One time I actually locked the car door because the feeling was particularly strong that day. Weird.
Me too..
Bro every time
Ladybird vibes
He is so spot on about anxiety disorder. I'm 32 and have been coping since 17. The anxiety u get from trying to hide it, makes it that much worse. This is a vicious, vicious cycle. Survival mechanism my butt.
Have you gotten an actual anxiety disorder diagnosis? So many people think they have anxiety but don't actually.
You should start writing the thought On a piece of paper right at the moment it starts. And then challenge your thoughts. Do it repeatedly and then your brain will automatically do it.
@@dumbodum yes, prescribed propanalololol (or something likenthat) for when I feel like I'm going into high stress, activities. Therapy once a month now down from weekly.
@@dumbodum I really wish I didn't have it. Wouldn't wish it on worst enemy.
I had an insane anxiety episode of my life a few years ago, but now I have conversations with my thoughts. It is just as “bad” but I can basically talk to the thoughts and understand them whereas before it seemed like me vs my mind.
Does that sound similar to you?
This man all ways makes the videos that I want
In high school, my class had a mountain-climbing expedition for a week when I was 15. At one point, we were in a bat cave, climbing above a dark void that stretched indefinitely far below us.
Squeezing myself between two rocks and holding on for my life between the rock I was holding and the one my leg was resting on, I heard a voice say, "Why does the school assume that everyone is capable of survival? We don't have any harnesses. What if someone made a mistake here, or what if they just wanted to die and this was their chance? You're safe, Caleb. But for the future safety of everyone coming after you, you have to let go of the rock you're holding. Jump. Teach this school a lesson."
I had to fight with all my strength not to listen when falling into the abyss was as easy as just loosening my fingers from the awkwardly-shaped rock I was desperately clutching. My fingers seemed to loosen all on their own as a sense of fatigue washed over me. My arms went limp as the abyss called to me once more. It was much larger than I was, or than I would ever be. I felt like a child again, so engulfed by my curiosity of the unknown that the part of me that is meant to detect danger was drowned out.
Only one thought rung.
"Let go. Jump. Let go. Jump."
Softly, as though it were some hypnotic whisper.
"Jump."
To become one with the abyss was to become a part of something infinitely greater than I.
"Jump."
I was frozen for a time. The next rock I was supposed to hold seemed to stretch away from me and for some reason - it wasn't panic I felt, it was almost a paralytic peace.
ANYWAYYYYYY
Safe to say, I didn't jump. I blocked out the calls and leapt for the next rock, shutting my eyes for the worst - but I caught it. And I'm glad I did, but seriously. That school should stop taking kids there.
That's kinda creepy 😨😰
Wtf
You would probably be a great storyteller with how you shared that experience
You should become a writer (not because i think what you said is fake, i belive you, but because you wrote it in such a great way)
Duuuude you have a way with words, and its so impressive and so beautiful idk
It’s so coincidental...I’ve experienced this feeling just today...The feeling to jump in front of the metro train..not in a suicidal way but in a kind of curious way..just imagining what would happen if I do it..A What if situation! This video really makes me realise how often we overlook our day-to-day life’s experiences..! If there wasn’t this video,I’d probably had not even thought of the experience that I had today...
I'm not suicidal, but even I have the urge to jump 😂 it's weird, I can't control the urge, I can only control the actual act, which further emphasizes my first statement
It's been so long of being suicidal that I forgot how it feels like to be normal.... Idk? Like I feel like it doesn't exist anymore. Who doesn't want to die, right?
@@Buzzzy-bee Personally I don't want to die, I just want relief
@@Nai_101 if only suicidals saw your comment
@@Nai_101 It’s so deep
its like im scared im gonna do it subconsciously and die because of that, basically i dont trust myself around heights, but the proof its my subconscious is that i have acrophobia, yet i still feel an urge to jump
One of the most fascinating feeling I ever had... I always thought this is not something very simple, it has very very big connection with our evaluation and how we calculate risk, fear and adventure.
I really learned a lot in this video, so much information in such a short space of time. I still want to ask this though: Couldn't the urge to jump be the desire to go beyond the limitations of our current reality? The mind just wanting to know what's next and the after though just being "hey that's impractical we could be hurt or die"
I think that it’s more a perspective thing…for me when that urge pops up i don’t think too deep on it I just say “Damn that would be crazy” and move on so I just think I depends on how much attention you give the urge. the more attention you pay the more you can get engulfed in the fear of doing it rather then actually doing it. Basically Mind over Matter
Now the urge pops up o don’t even react I jus Uk experience it
I*
No, dont take this the wrong way. But this is just an explanation that sounds too cool. Its something you like to be true. Kinda movielike.
Well i have a fear of heights due to the opposite my brain doesnt want to jumo cause i will die it knows and it doesnt want it to happen so it gets me to overthink and think to a point of anxiety however my brain also has those exact moments where is wondering "What would happen,what would I become,how would I end".
This video makes the urge stronger..
Lmao ikrr
YEAHH
@@Loney932 :D
😂😂😂😂😅😅😅
This is the fifth vid I can relate today on yt about my life. Just amazed bout today because I did my hw without complaining or keeping it for tomorrow. Had an amazing day, hope yall do😊
I work in a sawmill. I often have these urges. Like what if I just stick my finger in between that chain and sprocket.
I feel like this phenomenon is a misinterpretation of a fight or flight response in a passively threatening situation. The danger is clear and present but neither the fight nor the flight response is required. So, there you are on the side of a cliff in an elevated endorphin state with no other threat than your own balance and proximity to the edge because you're consciously aware that the edge isn't going to jump at you. Now you're standing facing this urge to either fight the air just over the edge or blindly run, both actions potentially pushing you over the edge.
Now, the urge to push others off the edge is not as pleasant to discuss because it exposes ones potential to disadvantage someone else to gain personal advantage in a stressful situation.
Wow
I get these feelings all the time. Makes me feel like I am crazy or something.
This man helps me feel like nothing. Simple nothing.
simply nothing
@@herrweiss2580 I like when he is saying (Explaining ) nothing. Totally nothing at all.
Nice content. It just proves that we have control over our actions despite any urges that we may feel. It’s not a go unless you go, regardless of whether you have an urge or not. In anxiety disorders (such as OCD), urges to carry out compulsions are examples of urges that go against what we truly want, and we can learn to refrain from giving in to the urges, no matter how strong they may be.
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I'm saving this for one of my characters who'll have an existential crisis.
I can with all sincerity say that I have never felt the "Urge to Jump." I have wanted to die throughout my life, but the one thing that seems to be a major obstacle to this desire is the fear of failure. What happens if I go through with a suicidal impulse and attempt suicide, but fail to die? In the case of jumping from a high place I always imagine breaking my legs or other bone fractures... that's painful! Cutting my wrists involves pain... no thank you. Eating a bullet also carries the risk that the bullet will pass through an area of your body (usually the head) and there is a chance that it will not kill you.
I don't fear death. I fear the pain. I also lack the will to endure pain to reach my goal.
A high jump and a headshot will kill you 100% other is just fantasy. Not saying u should tho. We will die anyway one day so you can as well live bro.
jep I feel the same. Impulse to jump did never come to to mind even though I struggle with suicidal thoughts from time to to time. but if I would go through with it it would have be fool proof, no pain no big chance of failure.
I’ve felt the same way before, but I figure that since we’re going to die one day anyway, we might as well live as long as we can and experience everything we can, just in case nothing comes after. It sounds depressing, but I’m honestly curious to know what comes next, y’know?
@@averagejoe2232 I have a small belief in the Simulation Hypothesis. I like to think that we are all simulated human beings programmed to be a cog in the wheel, of sorts; that we have a preprogrammed set of objectives we have to meet before our deaths. It could be something as simple as just speaking to another human being one day and setting them on the correct path for them to achieve their programming goals. If I am still here, maybe my objective(s) haven't been met yet.
I hate that my musings mean we all have a fate of sorts, but at the same time, it does give your life some meaning if it has none.
@@MrJayateabug If we are a part of a simulation, I'd imagine that we would all have a very complex set of objectives. It would be inefficient to simulate a person for 70+ years, which would probably require an enormous amount a power and memory, only for them to have a singular purpose. Idk.
I tend to think that our reality is the real thing, but I suppose the Simulation Hypotheses is possible.
Ive had this feeling not even directly near a cliff or edge. I was on the 15th floor of a hotel and just being that high, knowing the balcony was 20-25 feet from me was enough to fill me with fear I could just quickly walk over and jump and thatd be it. Very odd sensation I could not control.
The Call of the Void. I believe it’s something everyone deals with. Kind of like intrusive thoughts. It’s just something you acknowledge and move on from. Dwelling on it is when problems arise.
Thank you so much. I have been having these thoughts and feelt so alone with them. For the first time I dont feel alone. This has showen me so much. Thank you
Yeah bro, these intrusive thoughts be crazy sometimes. I ignore them and the urges simply vanish.
It happens every time I walk in crowded places, I suddenly have the urge to snatch a purse...make me feel like a psychopath
Really?
Never had that urge at all.
It’s actually crazy you included the interview example and sweating when recalling details of a story u tell a friend. I have an interview tomorrow, and I was doing the ladder earlier today.
I thought this was going to be something about The View From Halfway Down, but yeah this makes perfect sense, anxiety about anxiety. Great video!
I always have the urge to smack someone talking to me
This is crazy . I never thought someone would make a video about this ! I always have these thoughts and I just find it intriguing just thinking about how one moment you can be alive and thinking and in a split second everything hurts then it’s nothing . I don’t think I’m suicidal . I love my family and my life . And I would never do anything to hurt them but I did used to have severe depression and maybe it depends on the persons past trauma . Maybe they’ve experienced someone’s death which is what was my case and well the concept of death is integrated in your mind forever . That’s what I think personally
I forgot who said it, I think it was Bill Hicks, but he said "If you think you can fly try it from the ground first..."
🤣🤣🤣
No, not afraid to jump but afraid of the impact
I always thought it was a involuntary self-check on the instinct of self-preservation
Your videos are always made so well!! And your endings are so good!🙌
3:00 Out of probably tens of thousands of different stock footage clips… why that one 🤣 caught me off guard lmao
something i have yet to comprehend is how do you make such good videos, they are so calm and understable
I was at the top of this building in Tokyo, an outdoor eating area. I looked over the barriers at the edge and thought they would have been easy to climb and jump to the streets below. Never felt a pull that strong before.
Should I jump?
*Brain: Yesn’t*
There is so much content in a 10min video here. I love this man's videos.
Ive recently found out about intrusive thoughts and this timing is good. I feel the urge to do things but just to see what would happen and not for other reasons, kinda like a scientist. Depression is a chronic issue because its usually brought up by your surroundings or yourself so it wont go away unless you go somewhere else or change the way you see things. Of course, there are other reasons for depression like family passing away or just feeling down all the time.
that was one of the notifications of all time
This is one of the most comment of all time
@@leon004leon this is one of the most reply of all time
Dunno. Sometimes the call of the void is pretty strong.
Great videos, as always! :D
Thank you very much for this video! This issue worried me for last few years and now I know that everythink is ok with me
i love ur channel so much! i would pay to see your videos-- the quality is outstanding. keep it up!
Life, is quite literally becoming Unlivable and day to day phenomenon is becoming an enormous struggle..
I wonder if there are others who feel the same and how do they survive? How to make this life, Livable again?
PS- No one really has answers to these questions and I'm loosing hope & strength each minute!😶
i did it twice and still woke up in the hospital. so frustrating.
its not just suicidal thoughts...I've been tempted to do things like sticking my hand in a fan,....throw myself through a window. etc, etc. might just be me.
What if death was always painless
My God this best describes my feeling right now. The fear that I can't breath will continue to make me be more afraid.
I'm currently a little bit over halfway through the video, and I feel like I just need to say, how funny the timing of this upload of yours is on my life, cuz last weekend I had the roughest sensation of loneliness I've ever felt, and that made me think about how often I unconsciously start imagining my life going to hell just because that one moment of sadness. I thought of that cuz of the "fear of anxiety" concept.
I guess life is always more of a mystery than you can ever imagine. Just when you thought you found a pattern for the world around you, the whole thing turns upside down outta nowhere, (and it feels like it does so) just to prove you wrong.
Today I went back to university after a full 4 days of staying home, and I feel like I was born a new, shining happy soul just like that.
Take care people, and always remember to be patient!
It would be hilarious if nobody ever saw this
Nice pfp mate
@@NeonGhost17 brooo yours is way sicker
This video is everything. This just changed a lot how I think or see this
there is an italian song with lyrics...la vertigine non e, paura di cadere ma voglia di volare. Translated says...vertigo is not a fear of falling but the desire to fly. Very poetic.
i love the small music tunes and pieces that are entered in between
i just wan to share that i had had this “suicidal thing” for like few years, i actually felt the want to jump everytime i see cliff or high ground stuff, but felt high peak anxiety at the same time, its so bad that i will start hyperventilating n crying lol but it didn’t stop me from approaching them
ok im seeing a lot of ppl saying they also hv tht urge but to the ppl tht SO WANTED TO JUMP I JUST GONNA TELL YOU DON‘T or else u will regret it fr fr
(from a person who got experience wink wink)
Ok but why are you ok
These videos help me fall asleep no cap
The voice is so relaxing and the music in the background too
Always ready for new content from you 👑❤
Thanks a ton 🙏
I was completely scared confusing my anxiety issues with suicidal tendencies!
My goodness brother your storytelling is amazing. The ending was immaculate
My family and I went on a road trip to the Grand Canyon, It was great! All the while driving there, I kept thinking about how it would feel to go to the edge of said canyon and to fall into it! The very day we arrived back home, I heard a news report of a man who threw himself out of a plane while on a flying trip over the canyon! I thought ‘ he did it ‘ .
Hi. This video like, with 100% accuracy, describes how I have felt for years. I have had a hard time explaining it to people. If throughout your research for this video, you have anything worth reading, I would much appreciate you posting it. Thanks for making this video.
I GET THIS ALL OF THE TIME. It's so crazy, being understood so well in this way. I swear I thought I was the only one who got these thoughts, no these urges. I've nearly died because of them before, and they stop me from driving.
Something that worked for me is looking down from the Empire State Building. Since not a whole lot of nice cliff views can compare to the height, it kinda lessens the power of the call of the void.
I really liked this video, it actually speaks to me personally. As I am a very anxious peron. The example of a job interview was really a hit in the bullseye , lets say. I am not struggling with this but this is something I ve come to realize as Ive been asking myself much more questions growing older. Like why am I reacting so bad to this and that. Maybe I have to address this issue and try to resolve it instead of ignoring it and subconciously let it influence me in a bad way.
Many of us experience it multiple times throughout out lives......... ............ You mean......all of the time? Like..literally, all of the time. An urge that happens so often that I can no longer do hallucinogens because of it....because my trips are now a reality completely surrounded by this urge. It's really hard to deal with sometimes. I manage......but it's tough.
I've always had that urge to jump. Not just from a cliff but even from the floor. I've just always had that urge to jump but I never did because I knew I was gonna get hurt if I did. The thing is, I was always willing to do it and I've never worried about my mental state since I know it the best. it's a weird impulse and it comes and goes as it pleases. I've always thought it was my subconscious just being suicidal but looking back now I've had that impulse since elementary school when I valued living so much and listening to this video actually explained this impulse :)
Loved the video. Always wanted something on this topic without knowing it
Wow that was really great as an OCD sufferer now I finally get why I feel the things the way explained in the video and that sucidal one too
Would it be the same as getting the urge to crash a car? I know it sounds crazy but sometimes I’ll be driving and I’ll think “wow I could really end it if I turn my steering wheel” no I’m not suicidal and my brain quickly tells it’s self “no that’s dumb, why would you hurt yourself”. But I think it’s interesting how the “thought” just pops up. It’s so weird
This pretty much sums up the last two years of my high school.
I'm worried that someone might push me off.
I feel this and just think to myself, if you die that's it but if you don't you'll need a lot of money and then I just relax. I mean, I am no where near the edge but I literally see myself run up, do a cat pass over the rails, sometimes I land and sometimes I break a leg. But I never actually have done it.
This video's starting is so soothing
And I thought I had a psychological disorder
Everytime I look down from the top of stairs, I always think ‘how badly would I hurt myself if I jump down there?’ Like, I want to find out but I also don’t
another aperture video lets go
You're in a simulation and the being that controls you might have to start over so he hesitates in making u jump. Imagine
Most accurate statement here'😢
This got so scary, some clips in this video are just horrifying. I'm about to get a heart attack💀
I love ur videos man
My life feels like it's been falling apart
Lost my job and now I'm just at home afraid of change and this was very helpful especially in giving me the words to find
how are you now?
This video honestly deserves millions of views
Amazing video!
The video felt relatable until he mentioned the fear. I never felt that?
After a thought like that I just go 'meh, whatever' and continue with my day
This only works in dreams for me. In the wakeful life, acrophobia takes over so a hard nope.
i was just thinking about that and then your video comes
Excellent video
this guys voice is so calming
beautiful video like always
I'm not scared of getting hit by a bus, or jumping off a cliff.
I'm scared of surviving it.
i have this when waiting for the bus or train
since i once saw the after effect of it happening i can also imagine it pretty good
Man now i have to use the stairs back down.
When the intrusive thoughts are winning
That urge is less and less irrational every day.
so close to being first - Aperture, your videos are some of the best on CZcams. Thank you for your hard work and inspirational and informative videos
Time to use my potential from physics class!
call of the void, i find it extremely interesting how our minds work regarding this beautiful phenomenon. I like doing activities like parkour and urban climbing, so one time I was hanging over 20 meter drop on concrete just with the trust in my hands. I wondered what if I opened my hand, because that is all it takes to change everything, you lose everything, it ends there. Heights and drops arent the only things that bring this phenomenon, like it says in the video, jumping in front of cars, opening car doors while driving, calling your teacher stupid for no reason ( just me?), splashing water on the blow dryer while drying my hair.. it all comes from the same mind mechanism. I have found this one easy explanation in an article, so I would like to share it. "Not jumping from cliffs or in front of a train is deeply embedded into you. It’s a threat to your survival so it’s something your body wants to avoid at all cost. So it presumably tries to suppress the very idea that this could happen. But if you’ve ever tried to suppress a thought, you know that it can easily backfire.
Basically, your attempt to avoid thinking about something can lead you to do the exact opposite and think about it. All it takes is a single thought that can cascade into a chain reaction leading to intrusive thoughts like the call of the void. It could also be your brain trying to send a signal to be careful and *not* do that thing."
great video i learned a lot
call of the void
I've always wondered.
*_why humanity?_*
Truly. "Why, are, we?"
Growing up undiagnosed autistic and ADHD as well as chronic genetic physical conditions all of which were never taken care of at all as a child growing up yeah this explains my life. RSD, trust issues and anxiety conditions freaking suck.
These videos take me to a different place when I listen to them...
I’ve had the feeling before, and it feels similar to when I am putting sharp things like knives away while doing the dishes, do they have they have anything in common?